Editions of the Speculum Maius:Preliminary remark

This page builds on the overview of the genesis of the Speculum Maius (see Overview of genesis), which presents information on the parts or specula : Speculum Naturale, Speculum Doctrinale, Speculum Historiale and (apocryphal) Speculum Morale, and on their specific components and surviving versions.

Editions and translations after 1700

Editions and translations of the Speculum Maius

Libellus Apologeticus and short prologues

Latin text

Oursel, C., Un exemplaire du `Speculum Majus' de Vincent de
Beauvais provenant de la bibliothèque de Saint Louis. In:
Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 85
(1924), pp. 261-262.
[edition of the short prologue that introduces the Dijon version of the Speculum Historiale]

Annoted editions of the oldest versions of the Libellus apologeticus — prologues to the Dijon version of the Speculum Historiale and to the Tournai version of the Speculum Naturale — are available in SourcEncyMe (SOURCes des ENCYclopédies MEdiévales) of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes at Paris.

Voorbij, J. B., Het `Speculum Historiale' van Vincent van Beauvais.
Een studie van zijn ontstaansgeschiedenis, (Ph.D. Groningen University)
Groningen 1991 (with an English summary), pp. 348-374.
[edition of book XXVII, c. 83, collated with version Douai book XXVIII,83; listing of the titles of the 242 chapters of book XXVIII, which constitute the florilegium of Bernard of Clairvaux; edition of book XXX,90-94 presenting contemporary history ending in 1244; edition of book XXX,100-102 and 106 on the world's Last Days]

Speculum Historiale: Saint-Jacques (Hd) and Douai (He) versions

Latin text

An annoted edition, based on manuscript Douai Bibliothèque municipale 797, is available in SourcEncyMe (SOURCes des ENCYclopédies MEdiévales) of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes at Paris.
Vol. 1 of the manuscript represents the Saint-Jacques version, while volumes 2-4 represent the Douai version.

A digital edition of the Speculum Historiale, based on manuscript Douai Bibliothèque municipale 797, is available in the Bases Textuelles of the former Atelier Vincent de Beauvais at Nancy.
Vol. 1 of the manuscript represents the Saint-Jacques version, while volumes 2-4 represent the Douai version.

Beazley, C.R. [ed.], The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis As Printed for the First Time by Hakluyt in 1598 Together With Some Shorter Pieces. London 1903, pp. 74-106. [Reprinted: Nendeln 1967].
[edition of book XXXII, 2-33: excerpt from Jean de Plano Carpini's (Giovanni di Pian del Carpino) Historia Mongalorum, after the edition by Hakluyt (1598)]

Tugwell, S. [ed.], Petri Ferrandi Legenda Sancti Dominici, Rome (Angelicum University Press) 2015 (Corpus Hagiographicum Sancti Dominici – Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica, XXXII), pp. 403-424: Appendix III: Vincent of Beauvais.
[pp. 418-424: edition of book XXX,93-95 and 103-105 containing part of Vincent’s second life of Dominic, for this part based on Ferrandus’ Legenda (Vita secunda); the rest of this second life, in books XXX,96, and XXXI,65-77, 85 and 110-120 (omitted from Tugwell’s edition), is taken from Constantine of Orvieto’s Legenda Sancti Dominici]

Translations

Beazley, C.R. [ed.], The Texts and Versions of John de Plano Carpini and William de Rubruquis As Printed for the First Time by Hakluyt in 1598 Together With Some Shorter Pieces. London 1903, pp. 74-106. [Reprinted: Nendeln 1967].
[edition of book XXXII, 2-33: excerpt from Jean de Plano Carpini's (Giovanni di Pian del Carpino) Historia Mongalorum, after the edition by Hakluyt (1598)]
[English translation by Hakluyt]

Speculum Morale

Mews, C.J. and Zahora, T., Remembering Last Things and Regulating Behavior in the Early Fourteenth Century: From the De consideratione novissimorum to the Speculum morale. In: Speculum 90 (2015), pp. 960-994.
[pp. 993-994: edition of the Prologue to the Speculum Morale]